Cautious possible new member/user

[Tom Bamford]

Stephen Constantinou wrote:
> 8) Every version of Mandrake/Mandriva I have ever had displys an error 
> message during boot that slamer (or something similar) could not be 
> found/loaded.  This I think relates to the soft modem.  Does Ubunto 
> support soft modems?  Please say yes!
>
> 9) Will my PCMCIA external CDROM be supported?
>   

As you will know soft-modems are notoriously crap, however on my IBM 
laptop Ubuntu 7.10 detected and loaded the appropriate driver/firmware 
for the built in Intel soft modem. It maps /dev/modem to the correct 
device and I've used it successfully, though not for long so I don't 
know how stable or reliable it is.

I have a Freecom Traveller 2 which works over USB but not over PCMCIA. 
I've also got a 16-bit PCMCIA IDE controller which doesn't work in 
Ubuntu. Hopefully you'll have better luck.

Regards,
Tom